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Great Short Works of Thomas Hardy (Perennial Classic)
Great Short Works of Thomas Hardy - Perennial Classic Author:Thomas Hardy Edited, with an introduction, by Samuel Hynes. — Thomas Hardy is best known for his great prose tragedies of nineteenth-century rural England; but of all the Wessex novels and tales "Under the Greenwood Tree," an early, almost lyrical novel, most completely expresses Hardy's deep personal feeling for the English country and its sturdy farmers and... more » old-time craftsmen. It is a carefully composed work of abundant charm and humor, too often lost among the later dark novels. In this unique anthology Professor Samuel Hynes has brought together "Under the Greenwood Tree," the delightful sketches of "A Few Crusted Characters," four of the more successful tales and a selection of poems in order to present Hardy as the "parish historian" of an England of simple traditions that had even then largely passed away.
Includes the following stories:
A Few Crusted Characters
The Three Strangers
The Withered Arm
The Fiddler of the Reels
The Grave by the Handpost
Includes the following poems:
The Bride-Night Fire
The Ruined Maid
A Trampwoman's Tragedy
A Sunday Morning Tragedy
The Curate's Kindness (A Workhouse Irony)
The Homecoming
The Rash Bride (An Experience of the Mellstock Quire)